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who are rather superior to the common class. For labourers who 

 can scarcely read, the best gardening tract yet produced is The 

 Practical Directions (6d.) of Charles Lawrence, Esq. (VII. 216.); 

 and for those who can read and think, and who have ground 

 enough to keep a cow, and perhaps their own cottage to build, 

 we would recommend, above all other works, Denson's Peasants 

 Voice (VII. 80.); and next to this, our own Cottage Manual, 

 (VI. 292.) It gives us great pleasure to see tracts of this kind 

 multiplied ; because we feel certain that they must do immense 

 good to the great mass of society. We expect shortly two 

 similar publications, more scientific than any of the above, from 

 the pens of Professor Rennie and Mr. Main. 



Wall is, Jo/171, Timber-surveyor, Belvidere Road, Westminster 

 Bridge Road, Lambeth : Dendrology ; in which are facts, 

 experiments, and observations, demonstrating that trees and 

 vegetables derive their nutriment independently of the earth ; 

 and also observations on decay and defects in trees, together 

 with a brief method of pruning. London, 1833, 8vo. 



A piece of folly. To review the book seriously, would be like 

 breaking a butterfly upon the wheel. 



Wood, William, Nurseryman, at Maresfield, Sussex, and at the 

 Barriere du Roule, Paris : A List of Roses. In a folio 

 sheet. 



The first list in this sheet contains 800 names, with short de- 

 scriptions annexed to each, but which are not classed in any 

 manner whatever. There are minor lists: viz., of 14 varieties of 

 moss rose, with descriptions; 10 of the perpetual-flowering and 

 hybrid roses ; 31 of Noisettes ; 14 of climbers ; and 71 of China 

 roses and their hybrids. It is also stated, that the nursery con- 

 tains 123 sorts of the best Scotch roses, and 234 sorts of the 

 best Dutch. Mr. Wood's nursery at Maresfield, of about 20 

 acres, which we visited in September last, is in a fine airy situa- 

 tion, and the soil is of a saponaceous loamy description; both of 

 which circumstances are highly favourable for the growth of 

 roses, and of nursery articles generally. 



Art. II. Literary Notices. 



A Library of Landscajpe-Gardcning, edited by J. C. Loudon, 

 is now in preparation, and the first number, in 8vo, price 2s. 6d., 

 will very shortly appear. This work will be comprised in three 

 8vo volumes (each complete in itself), which will be sold sepa- 

 rately, or together, at 205. each. The first volume will contain 

 the whole of the Picturesque Works of the Rev. Wm. Gilpin, 

 originally published in 14 volumes, at about 10/., and now nearly 



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